Nova Carmina

I used get a copy of MAD from the grocery store when my mom took us shopping with her. I'll never forget Thulsa Doom from Conan parodied as Thirsty Goon. End of so many eras . . .

Cold Pursuit, with Liam Neeson. 8/10. You probably know what you're getting going in, and that's what you're going to get. But it's well done in its genre.

Ceiling Unlimited

I like the idea of different set lists, too; do you remember when Pearl Jam released every show from a tour about 20 years ago? It was cool comparing which cities had which songs. But Rush has always amazed me for how close to the studio versions their live versions sound, and they were always very precise about things, so they were never the sort of band to knock together a set-list during the soundcheck. Despite the sameness, I still love the bootleg shows; it's an audio veritas experience that would be hard to match.

What a disaster WWI was in every way: death on an industrial scale, punitive peace, the Bolsheviks, the lot. There's one history would like to have to do over.

I had Warehouse: Songs and Stories and like about half a dozed songs a lot ("Up in the Air," "She's a Woman," "Charity, Chastity, Prudence, and Hope," "She Floated Away," "It's Not Peculiar"), but that's where my interest stopped. I did like Sugar's "Your Favorite Thing." Classic punk rock/power trio arc to the band's story, though.

Grand Designs

I checked out a couple of their other videos and like you said, they're in the same vein. But they don't seem to be taking German Expressionism too seriously, which is cool. RJD was an awesome singer, and I'll accept no counter-argument, and one of the first things I loved about Maiden's Live After Death is Dickinson's singing; that guy could really put on a show. I might give some of the other songs on this album a listen when it comes out; it was pretty melodic, but still heavy.

What I appreciate about the above song is that he's actually just singing it, in a "normal" voice, rather than doing that guttural grating "death metal" voice that always makes my throat hurt. It's hard to tell from the video if they're serious about these costumes or if it's a parody of the way a bad like theirs "should" look. They look like Pugsley and Wednesday grew up to form a bitchin' band.

I should copy and paste many of these comments about "Afterimage" or "Kid Gloves" into the P/G thread! That album is great, and I guess I still don't understand why it's supposedly "the synth era" of the band. I get they used them more, but that came out of Geddy's share more than Alex's, and Alex kept producing great solos.

Sunny, hot (about 88F), humid. You know, summer in the midwest; it sucks! Fortunately, I got my round of golf in before 11:00 . . .

For reasons I can't explain or justify, I've always like "The Weapon" . . .

I get that. For anybody who grew up in a place big enough to have cliques, someone is always left out. That was true even at the smaller rural school I attended. But do we really think that all these metal bands were the "uncool" kids? Isn't that a bit of a stereotype? Or is it a stereotype because it's true?

I love bootleg shows! There's just something so awesome about the "you are there" feeling others have already mentioned. I love hearing the Fear Trilogy played, for example, and -- while it's not Rush -- the moment when "White Summer/Black Mountain Side" segues instantly into "Kashmir" is just magic. Plus, I was too young to see LZ or Pink Floyd, etc. and the live stuff is too rare from them, so it's bootlegs galore. I have bought all the commercial stuff (maybe not every boxed set re-release) and some things -- like Led Zep IV which I bought on LP, tape, cd, and iTunes -- I own in multiple formats. My indulging in bootleg recordings cannot AT ALL constitute taking any money from the band's pocket, as there was no product to buy instead. Besides, I don't accept the argument that it takes control of the band's musical quality out of their hands -- if the show was good enough to charge somebody a ticket price, why isn't it good enough to listen to again? Thank you to all the intrepid tapers!

Hey, that was a well-reasoned and organized cogent explanation. They're gonna kick you off the internet if you keep that up. I disagree with most of it, but it was good to read! Here's to slow work days.

Yes, there was Van Halen’s debut. I don't want to hijack the thread, but out of curiosity, who did most of the writing on Van Halen I?

I remember reading Davis's "Hammer of the Gods" and he referred to the title as "an old joke not worth repeating" and it just sort of pissed me off that he'd bring it up but then not explain it! Once I knew it, though, I could kind of see his point. I'm going to listen to "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" right now. . .

Rush made a much better fist of throwing in a little reggae. Although Zep's title made me smile (when I was 12). It probably made more sense to you! I didn't get it until it was explained to me, in college I think . . . was there a bong in the room? Anyway, it doesn't enrich the song for me.

Okay, Van Halen I is good. Very good. That's the extent of my counter-argument . . .

Oh, it's got some dross, no question -- but to be fair, we could say that about even the regular-length albums! Looking at you, "Dyer Maker" . . . .

As some have posted above, I voted for Physical Graffiti partly because there's just more of it. Say what you want about the grab bag of styles on III or HotH, but PG has that and then some. "Kashmir," "Trampled Underfoot," "Boogies With Stu," "In the Light," "In My Time of Dying," hell, even "Custard Pie"! PG is the album that goes up to eleven. Let me just offer a word Led Zeppelin I, though; has there ever been a more thunderous or door-kicked-in debut? Plus, it's got "Dazed and Confused" and "How Many More Times."

The Drive-by Truckers (obviously indebted to Skynyrd) of the Hood/Cooley/Isbell configuration. The Dirty South or A Blessing and Curse, especially. "The Day John Henry Died" or "Lookout Mountain" or "Gravity's Gone" or "Easy On Yourself" even more specifically . . . .

Led Zep's "How Many More Times." Propulsive.

What's with all the death metal bands covering "Subdivisions"? It hardly seems like the first choice . . .?

My mother never listens to music on her own; my father was always really into classical music when I was a kid. BUT, my dad belonged to some sort of "record-of-the-month" club (like Columbia, I guess, for classical music/opera/etc.) and one month they accidentally sent him some K-Tel hits collection that had Blondie's "Heart of Glass" and Styx's "Renegade" on it, and he gave it to me and my brother and we wore the grooves off that thing, playing it over and over.